New details of Austria’s Muslim Brotherhood cells

Beatings and intimidation of one of the accused imams after raids that included sixty targets of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group in four states in November 2002.

Investigations and interrogations included 70 suspects of membership in the terrorist organization, financing of terrorism, and money laundering.

The attack on “Ahmed. M.”, a Muslim Brotherhood dissident who, in the context of his testimony in the investigation, revealed new sons in the case, like “Ahmed. M.” was subjected to a severe beating that necessitated his transfer to hospital two weeks ago in Vienna by the Austrian newspaper Volksblatt, was hit by a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood clan born in Egypt and has separated from them in recent years.

The Austrian newspaper confirmed that the perpetrators in this incident are two relatives of the head of a cultural association affiliated to the Brotherhood organization in Austria.

Three weeks ago, the anger of radical Islamist currents rose against the man, with information emerging that his statement to the police after last year’s raids was one of the bases on which to investigate the group’s activities in Austrian territory. According to a report by the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, the information was provided by Ahmed. The authorities are key in building the structure of the Brotherhood case under investigation at the General Prosecutor’s Office in Graz.

He detailed the structures and representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Austria and, above all, identified those within the group’s internal leadership circle, paving the way for a court order to conduct raids against the group’s targets.

And despite what happened to Ahmed. Like dozens of others accused of belonging to the Brotherhood, he is one of the 70 suspects in the case, but Austria’s Volksblatt reported that he could refute the suspicion that he was a “leading member of the Brotherhood in Austria” at the end of the investigation; because Islamists in Austria consider him a “traitor” since he started advocating “moderate Islam” in the old continent.